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Curriculum Vitae

Siffrin

Education

2001 – 2005

Medical thesis (Charité/German Rheumatism Research Center)

2001 – 2004

Medical School of the Charité - University Medical Center Berlin

2000 – 2001

Medical School of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland)

1997 – 2000

Medical School of the Philipps University Marburg

1997-2004

Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bonn

 

 

Professional Experience

Since 2010

Attending Physician in Neurology; University Medical Center Mainz

2006-2009

Clinical scientist and resident in Neurology working on CNS dynamics in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; Cecilie Vogt Clinic, Charité - University Medical Center Berlin (Clinical focus: Multiple Sclerosis/autoimmune inflammatory CNS diseases)

2005

Clinical resident in Neurology in the Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum Berlin

Awards

2009

Young Researcher’s Award of the multiple sclerosis international federation (MSIF)

Publications

Siffrin, V., H. Radbruch, R. Glumm, R. Niesner, M. Paterka, J. Herz, T. Leuenberger, S. M. Lehmann, S. Luenstedt, J. L. Rinnenthal, G. Laube, H. Luche, S. Lehnardt, H. Fehling, O. Griesbeck, and F. Zipp. 2010. In vivo imaging of partially reversible th17 cell-induced neuronal dysfunction in the course of encephalomyelitis. Immunity 33: 424-436.

Herz, J., V. Siffrin, A. E. Hauser, A. U. Brandt, T. Leuenberger, H. Radbruch, F. Zipp, and R. A. Niesner. 2010. Expanding two-photon intravital microscopy to the infrared by means of optical parametric oscillator. Biophys. J 98: 715-723. equally contributing first author

Siffrin, V., A. U. Brandt, H. Radbruch, J. Herz, N. Boldakowa, T. Leuenberger, J. Werr, A. Hahner, U. Schulze-Topphoff, R. Nitsch, and F. Zipp. 2009. Differential immune cell dynamics in the CNS cause CD4+ T cell compartmentalization. Brain 132: 1247-1258.

Nogai, A., V. Siffrin, K. Bonhagen, C. F. Pfueller, T. Hohnstein, R. Volkmer-Engert, W. Brück, C. Stadelmann, and T. Kamradt. 2005. Lipopolysaccharide injection induces relapses of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in nontransgenic mice via bystander activation of autoreactive CD4+ cells. J. Immunol 175: 959-966. equally contributing first author

Siffrin, V., J. Vogt, H. Radbruch, R. Nitsch, and F. Zipp. 2010. Multiple sclerosis - candidate mechanisms underlying CNS atrophy. Trends Neurosci 33: 202-210.
Siffrin, V., A. U. Brandt, J. Herz, and F. Zipp. 2007. New insights into adaptive immunity in chronic neuroinflammation. Adv. Immunol 96: 1-40.